Windows maps download tool for MapThis! by in7ane

[in7ane]

meme me, I think it's to do with windows dpi/font sizing (Control Panel/Display Properties/Settings/Advanced if it is not Normal size (96 dpi)) I doubt you want to change that though as it will change how windows looks - I'll see if I can specify it for GMDL without affecting widows as a whole.

dloading, thanks.

leaod, let me know if you want something specific added, as for the playlist - I could make the file specify songs in the same way as icons - but first it would have to be supported by Map This! (don't know if it's possible for Map This! to call the plugin to play mp3s though).

[in7ane]

meme me, could you try and re-download http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.4.12b.zip (build 19549) it still doesn't look particularly good with big fonts but at least it seems to work now. (dloading's changes are in as well)

[leaod]

in7ane,
Don't you worries with the playlist feature, it's nice but not important.

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com

Looks a kind of tool to draw vectorial maps using google maps, maybe can help you in some moment.

[deniska]

in7ane,
I have a feature request: can you add an option to "glue" map tiles together in 4096x4096 or 8192x8192 pixel image chunks?
This can be usefull for "MapCrunching" of "non-googlized" map vendors like rambler, maps2go, etc...
Even with standard projection maps, some people may want to use it to re-map the areas that Google or VE plotted with positional errors..

I wrote a small cygwin script to do this (using imageMagic tools), but, I bet, it would be too hard for most people to follow the cygwin and imageMagic install...
;-)

[meme me]

4.12b ike you say not pretty but it works
thanks for the fix

[zashley1]

I have tried to create a extremely small list of for gas sation poi's and restaurant poi's just for a test in my home town. I am running the latest version of gmdl according to the launch (auto detect version). I can see these poi files in mapthis and I can select the restaurant poi and see the icons but when I select the gas stations they don't seem to come up. I have a fairly medium size map ~673MB. It is all of Illinois at 2x zoom and 128x. I am just wondering if it something I am doing wrong or if it is even possible to do what I am trying to do. basically I when I am on a trip I wanna search for the nearest bank, gas station and restaurant, without having to reconnect to my pc and get a dif poi one at a time. If there steps to do this, please let me know. I am not sure what all the buttons are for.

[zashley1]

By the way deniska and in7ane, you guys rock. As soon as i seen the PSP 290 support I jumped on ebay and got it. This is really fun. I am an outdoor enthusiast as well so this is gonna be handy. Thanks for all the hard work and effort. If there is a way to support let me know.

[in7ane]

deniska, can you re-download http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.4.12b.zip (build 31991) there's now a button in the GPSFS viewer to save 8192x8192 (max) tiles of the base layer - is this the general idea? I can make the size and the layer specifiable if you want, but gluing tiles straight from google maps, not GPSFS, seems to be beyond what google tolerates: http://gmerge.2ni.net/

zashley1, check that the POI file specified icons are in the map directory, try with a smaller (400 or less) POI file, if that fails post it here.

[deniska]

deniska, can you re-download http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.4.12b.zip (build 31991) there's now a button in the GPSFS viewer to save 8192x8192 (max) tiles of the base layer - is this the general idea? I can make the size and the layer specifiable if you want, but gluing tiles straight from google maps, not GPSFS, seems to be beyond what google tolerates: http://gmerge.2ni.net/

This is great stuff!! should help people to "GPS-convert" those russian and chinese maps vendors included in the tool...

[zashley1]

This may sound silly but how do the lat\lon divisors affect my poi's? I just tried